Coaching Quotes - Page 31

• Coaching is preparation.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Preparation, Basketball Coaching

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• The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Attitude, Team

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.97, U of Nebraska Press

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• Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

  Bo Schembechler

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

  Larry Shyatt

  Basketball, Want, Knows

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• To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Successful, Player

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• Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Example

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• Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Running, Class

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• Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teamwork, Taught

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Pride, Play

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• Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Moving, Play

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• Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Basketball Coaching

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• Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Essentials, Conditioning

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• The team is the star, never an individual player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Satisfied

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• Leadership starts at the top.

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Basketball Coaching

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• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  Joe Sakic

  Team, Hockey, Player

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• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You can never have enough talent.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Talent

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• If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Sports, Miserable

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• First master the fundamentals.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Self Motivation

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• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brandt

  Sports, Dream, Impossible

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• The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Moon, Play

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• Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Heaven

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• You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

  Brad Gilbert

  Might, Someday, Knows

  Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.

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• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Dimensions, Students

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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